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Re: Colgate's rpm won't install packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Nov 4 23:56:21 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:16:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Antti Kaunisto wrote:
> I tried to update some packages, but rpm said that
>
> unpacking of archive failed
> error: rpm-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> You see, I can't even update to new version of rpm!
WAG: You're using a 2.1 kernel which is tickling an RPM bug. You need to
get RPM 2.2.8 installed through rpm2cpio or rebooting into a 2.0 kernel.
Erik
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